Kings and Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth Century EnglandVintage Books, 1942 - 298 sivua Life in eighteenth century England in the time of the French Revolution. |
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... Tories , on the other hand , were the nation's land- owners and freeholders ; and the war , far from enriching them through trade , impoverished them with taxes . Once England got the upper hand over France , the hard - bled Tories ...
... Tories , on the other hand , were the nation's land- owners and freeholders ; and the war , far from enriching them through trade , impoverished them with taxes . Once England got the upper hand over France , the hard - bled Tories ...
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... Tories : they had more principles and program ; in Somers , Cowper , Godolphin , Walpole they had sounder states- men ; and they adjusted themselves to the future while the Tories reached vainly back toward the past . But while making ...
... Tories : they had more principles and program ; in Somers , Cowper , Godolphin , Walpole they had sounder states- men ; and they adjusted themselves to the future while the Tories reached vainly back toward the past . But while making ...
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... Tories returned to power and Tory scholars obtained fat jobs - once , that is , a Guelph king summed up all that one might ask of a Stuart - Jacobitism melted away . Successful themselves , the Oxford Tories no longer demanded success ...
... Tories returned to power and Tory scholars obtained fat jobs - once , that is , a Guelph king summed up all that one might ask of a Stuart - Jacobitism melted away . Successful themselves , the Oxford Tories no longer demanded success ...
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